We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course entitled "Term structure models and the zero lower bound". Dr Jens Christensen will teach the course. Jens Christensen is a senior economist in the Financial Research Section of the Federal Reserve Bank of...

This year’s conference will focus on Efficiently Inefficient Markets.

We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including: - Sources of asset price fluctuations: fundamentals and bubbles - Asset prices, financial frictions and the amplification/propagation of shocks - Interactions between financial and labour-market frictions -...

The meeting will include daily seminars in the morning, in which participants present their work, as well as less formal evening seminars scheduled at the beginning of the Symposium. In addition, four mornings will be devoted to 'focus sessions', each of which concentrates on some recent...

ESSET 2011 will be devoted to theoretical perspectives on financial crises. Focus sessions in the first week (4-8 July) will be organised around the theme of "Asset Pricing, Financial Stability, and the Crisis" . Focus sessions in the second week (11-15 July) will be organised around the theme...

Topics: 1) Sources of financial frictions: - Sources of liquidity - Reasons of market incompleteness and dysfunctions - Role of banks 2) Financial frictions in macromodels - Financial sector and real economy - Sources and consequences of financial crises - ‘Sudden stops’, financial contagion...

Topics may include, but are not limited to: • Business cycles and bank credit standards • Macroeconomic conditions, risk taking by banks and procyclicality • Procyclicality of capital requirements and implications for monetary policy • Procyclicality of financial regulation •...

The topic of the 13th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be ‘Financial Supervision in an Uncertain World’. The recent turmoil on global financial markets and the following recession have raised concerns that the current financial supervisory system does not suffice anymore. This can mainly be...

Topics: • Corporate and small business debt in foreign currency • Currency structure of household liabilities (e.g. mortgages) and assets • Modeling of currency risk • Regulation and supervision of currency risk (banks versus non bank institutions)

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on sovereign risk. The topics of the conference are the following: • Theoretical models. Why do countries repay their debts? What are the effects of sovereign risk? • Empirical analysis. What are the costs of default? When...